CONTENTS
One IN THE GARDEN
Profile of the Night Heron
The Century Plant
Mica Schist
All Night Long
Lilacs
Undergrowth
In the Garden
Sonnet to Basil
Ficus Noire
Spring Planting
Peony
Hermit Coming Out of the Forest
Rabid
in the garden at the time of the evening breeze
Two LAST NIGHT IN BROOKLYN
In the Beginning
The Taking
Casa Rosa
Silver Palace
Last Night in Brooklyn
Sugar Hill, Harlem
Where We Live
Death Has No Place
Airborne
At the Laundromat
At the Farmer’s Market
The Great Roberto
The Weather in New York
Thanksgiving
Leaving Brooklyn Heights
Columbus Park
Early Bird
Gift Basket for a Madman
Evening Rush
Tell Me
A Pole, a Fence, a Bridge
Body Elite
The Hungarian Pastry Shop & Café
Everything but God
Historic New York Pub Still Flourishing
Harvest
How We Memorize
Bicentennial
Composed upon Brooklyn Bridge, July 6, 2003
Three WIND FARM
Season’s Greetings from South Dakota
Water Bug
Inside
Farmers
Wind Farm
Tante Ethel in the Willow
You Are Here
Beiderbecke, Leon Bismarck “Bix,” 1903–1931
Needle and Thread
On Learning to Go Limp in Public Places
Coming into Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in a Propeller Plane
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
Discovery
The Distance